Date:    Fri, 29 May 1998 16:47:28 -0400
<br>From:    Alan Baragona <baragonasa[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VAX.VMI.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: kleenex, sheetrock, and dragon systems; emoticon
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<br>At 12:07 PM 5/29/98 -0500, Mark Mandel wrote:
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<br>>(BTW)^2 and back on topic, how do YOU pronounce "emoticon"? The first time
<br>I saw the word I thought /i.'mat.I.kan/, as
<br>>in "lexicon", and that pron still echoes faintly for me, although I say the
<br>word now as /'i.mot.'ay.kan/. It's an awkward
<br>>clash of spelling and pron.
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<br>>-- Mark
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<br>Oops. Let me revise that.  The pronunciation I was taught by the computer
<br>geek had the lax /I/, not the diphthong, which is what I was looking at, but
<br>not the /mat/.  So I pronounce it /i.'mot.I.kan/.
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<br>AB
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